5 Retailers That Aren’t Afraid of Amazon

Surviving the onslaught of Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN), yet alone thriving under its thumb, requires brick-and-mortar retailers to have one or more of the following characteristics: products that consumers do not purchase online, strong brand loyalty and in-store expertise that Amazon can’t provide in its online environment. And the following five companies are all Amazon-proof stocks.

If you’re looking to buy the shares of brick-and-mortar retailers, then you should undoubtedly purchase those that are unaffected, or as close to unaffected as possible, by Jeff Bezos & Co. Here’s why:

Like Home Depot and Lowe’s, Best Buy offers human expertise about complicated topics. Of course, Amazon can’t provide similar expertise. Additionally, the quantity and complexity of popular tech products are increasing all the time, making BBY employees even more valuable to consumers.

Wearables, drones, virtual reality and augmented reality devices, and virtual assistants are just some of the new tech products that are likely to spark many questions by consumers.

Have you ever "unplugged" from your cell phone? If you have, you've likely experienced the phenomenon of phantom vibrations -- the perception that your phone is ringing or vibrating when in fact it's not. (In the 1990s, people reported incidences of "phantom pager syndrome.")

U.S. stock futures are trading broadly higher this morning. Wall Street was bolstered by news that North and South Korea would hold their first summit meeting in more than a decade. Additionally, industrials got a lift as resistance to President Donald Trump’s tariff plan mounted from key

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